The video for Robbie Williams' throwbacky "You Know Me" conceptually flips around the title of the crooning 9/11 conspiracy theorist's new album, Reality Killed The Video Star . Only here it's the video that's killing anything resembling reality, with Williams using an extended dream sequence as an excuse to dress up in a bunny suit and flit around like he's late for a very important date...
2009 has been a great year for simulacra. Some have been pretty poor but others, such as the face of Jesus on a toilet door in a Scottish branch of Ikea was a particular highlight. And yet it continues! .Fellow pareidolia fans can enjoy the appearance of Ringo Starr in a water droplet. According to the Telegraph a team researching water-repellent leaf behaviour at Duke University in North Carolina...
Ahoy me hearties! The time has come to walk the plank! Shiver me timbers! *Ahem* Apologies everyone, but there is something strangely entertaining about this simple pirate bag, and I simply couldn't help myself! The funky skull and crossbones transfer brings a hint of individuality to a simple canvas shopper. The symbol never goes out of fashion, [...]
Below are the things we've posted to Twitter recently. In reverse chronological order, just like Twitter... # Johnny Marr kind of bored by Smiths reunion talk. Enjoyed Television reunion. Velvet Underground reunion? Not so much. http://ow.ly/xJxf 1 minute ago #...
Scott Cummins, an artist, has revolutionised the Halloween tradition of pumpkin carving by creating amazingly intricate 3-D versions of famous faces. Cummins spends up to two hours on his stunning carvings which include characters from blockbuster movies Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz and Pirates of the Caribbean. The instantly recognisable faces of popular cartoon characters Wallace and Gromit are also...
While promoting his upcoming film ' Astro Boy ', Bill Nighy states that any announcement concerning ' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ' is unreliable.
As excitement gears up for a fourth Pirates of the Caribean film news of Johnny Depp’s deminished enthusiasm for the franchise (after his buddy Dick Cook got fired from Disney) cast a small shadow over the news. Well Bill Nighy is forecasting darker skies for On Stranger Tides. Worst Previews says: “I understand that [...]
Having put the final touches on a brilliant cast, John Carter of Mars is getting underway at Disney. Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic series has seen a lot of stops and starts over the years, and it's still unbelievable that it's actually happening. But at this point, it's still shrouded in pre-production mystery, but Ain't It Cool News wheeled a little information out of Willem Dafoe about his role as...
We thought we knew what was going on with Pirates of the Caribbean 4 . We thought it was going to be entitled On Stranger Tides . We thought that Rob Marshall was in talks to helm the film after Gore Verbinski stepped away from the project (hell, we thought Gore Verbinski stepped away from the project). Finally, word was the film would hit theaters in the summer of 2011. Could all of this have been...
During Open Studios at Deptford X I had a visit from Amanda Francis (one of the DX committee) who told me of her trip to the Guggenheim in Bilbao earlier in the year where she had seen the work of an artist whose name she couldn't remember. She described it as a giant shipwreck spilling lots of broken china... So I looked it up. Another fantastic Chinese artist, Cai Guo Qiang. I found a review here...
Still talking about prog – sort of – three weeks in. System 7, successor, in a sense, to 1970s progressive band Gong, with both Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy of the latter both members. And perhaps one of the very very few examples of a successful crossover from 70s rock to dance and electronica (I [...]
I thought of him today because he scripted an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series back in 1988 or 89 and it was on t.v. this afternoon. It was (like most of the episodes of that series) either goofily bad or goofily pleasant, depending on your mood. Mine was sour so I didn't watch this tale of a cursed pirate treasure salvaged from Davy Jones' locker. I remember reading his novel Afterlife as a...
Being a respected pirate never looked so sexy! Now you too can look like Elizabeth Swann from the box office hit Pirates of the Caribbean with this deluxe Elizabeth Swann costumes .
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